Referenda and Primary Election Materials (ICPSR 6)

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Referenda and Primary Election Materials . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995-06-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00006.v1

Summary

This data collection contains election returns at the
county and state levels from the mid-nineteenth century to the late
twentieth century for primary and general elections on statewide
referenda, constitutional amendments, state House/Senate joint
resolutions, and initiated measures. The ballot language of each
measure is also included. County-level returns for most
gubernatorial, senatorial, and congressional primary elections from
1910 to the present are documented as well.

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Referenda and Primary Election Materials . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995-06-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00006.v1

Data Collection Notes

Most of the information for this collection is
available ONLY in typed and photocopied form. The exception is
statewide referenda data from 1968 to 1990, which ICPSR has converted
into machine-readable form. Included in this portion of the collection
are the county vote breakdowns for approximately 4,241 referenda voted
upon in primary and general elections throughout the United States. A
typed hardcopy codebook accompanies each state file. The primary
election data are NOT available in machine-readable form. It is
possible to supply, on a cost basis, limited portions of the referenda
and primary election returns that are not machine-readable in the form
of photocopies.

Data Source

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-06-19

Version Date

1995-06-05

Version History

1984-06-19 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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